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Doug Underwood offers a conceptual and historical framework for comprehending the impact of trauma and violence in the careers and the writings of important journalist-literary figures in the United States and British Isles from the early 1700s to today._x000B_Grounded in the latest research in the fields of trauma studies, literary biography, and the history of journalism, this study draws upon the accounts of popular writers such as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Graham Greene, and Truman Capote. Underwood notes that the influence of traumatic experience upon journalistic literature is being reshaped by a number of factors, including news media trends, the advance of the Internet, the changing nature of the journalism profession, the proliferation of psychoactive drugs, and journalists' greater self-awareness of the impact of trauma in their work._x000B_. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction. Trauma, News, and Narrative: The Study of Violence and Loss in Journalism and Fiction -- 1. Stories of Harm, Stories of Hazard: Childhood Stress and Professional Traumas in the Careers of J -- 2. Trafficking in Trauma: Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and Sensationalism as a Spur to Social Justi -- 3. Trauma in War, Trauma in Life: The Pose of the "Heroic" Battlefield Correspondent -- 4. Depression, Drink, and Dissipation: Dysfunctional Lifestyles and Art as the Ultimate Stimulant -- Epilogue: New Challenges, New Treatments: Trauma and the Contemporary Journalist-Literary Figure -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
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